Federal columbiad guns mounted on tinclads probably fired this 7-inch Dyer shell at Confederate fortifications on Island No. 10. The island surrendered to Gen. John Pope on April 8, 1862. The shell is on permanent exhibit at the Carnegie Center in...

The "General" was a locomotive working on the Western & Atlantic Railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta. In April 1862, a group of Union raiders under Capt. Andrews captured the locomotive in an attempt to destroy the railroad. The raiders were...

March 30, 1862, diary entry - States that they have been cut off from all communication with either North or South. On Sunday last our mail stopped - the train being taken off to prevent its falling into the hands of the Yankees. "I was sitting in...

A color-coded map made as an exhibit for an East Tennessee Supreme Court case (ET 1185). Shows properties, "business houses" and saloons owned by defendant Irene Friedman and other groups (including "property occupied by Negros") in the "red light...

Map of Reelfoot Lake (outlined in blue) surveyed by and under the direction of W. W. Cochran from 1902-1905. This map was created as an exhibit for a court case and shows land grants and property owners' names, streams, Reelfoot Lake and the Obion...

Exhibit of artifacts found at Kelly's Ferry in Marion County, Tenn. The community on the Tennessee River was the site of a Union camp during the Chattanooga Campaign. The Kelly's Ferry Road formed part of the famed Union "Cracker Line" that was...